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New and Collected Poems

1931-2001

By Czeslaw Milosz

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| Paperback | 9780060514488

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New and Collected Poems: 1931–2001 celebrates seven decades of Czeslaw Milosz's exceptional career. Widely regarded as one of the greatest poets of our time, Milosz is a master of probing inquiry and graceful expression. His poetry is infused with a tireless spirit and penetrating insContinue

New and Collected Poems: 1931–2001 celebrates seven decades of Czeslaw Milosz's exceptional career. Widely regarded as one of the greatest poets of our time, Milosz is a master of probing inquiry and graceful expression. His poetry is infused with a tireless spirit and penetrating insight into fundamental human dilemmas and the staggering yet simple truth that "to exist on the earth is beyond any power to name."

Czeslaw Milosz worked with the Polish Resistance movement in Warsaw during World War II and defected to France in 1951. His work brings to bear the political awareness of an exile -- most notably in A Treatise on Poetry, a forty-page exploration of the world wars that rocked the first half of the twentieth century. His later poems also reflect the sharp political focus through which this Nobel laureate never fails to bear witness to the events that stir the world.

Digging among the rubble of the past, Milosz forges a vision that encompasses pain as well as joy. His work, wrote Edward Hirsch in the New York Times Book Review, is "one of the monumental splendors of poetry in our age." With more than fifty new poems, this is an essential collection from one of the most important voices in contemporary poetry.

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  • Witness to the world

    New and Collected Poems 1931-2001 by Czeslaw Milosz 800pp, Penguin Modern Classics, £17.99 Czeslaw Milosz is one of the most significant poets of the 20th century and this collection, brilliantly translated from the Polish and covering 70 years of wo ... (read full critics)

    guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

  • A World Gone Up in Smoke

    In this world we walk on the roof of Hell gazing at flowers —Issa “They wrote as if History had little to do with them”—that’s how I imagine some future study of American poetry describing the work of our poets in the waning years of the twentieth ce ... (read full critics)

    nybooks published on Fri, 27 Aug 2010

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  • English Books
  • Paperback 800 Pages
  • Edition: Reprint
  • ISBN-10: 0060514485
  • ISBN-13: 9780060514488
  • Publisher: Ecco
  • Pub date: Apr 01, 2003
  • Dimensions: 1548 mm x 1032 mm x 258 mm Just how big is that?
  • Also available as: Hardcover
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